6/20/2023 0 Comments Gen x douglas coupland![]() In the three decades since its publication, Coupland’s debut has been associated with all manner of ideas: post-youth culture the pervasiveness of consumerism apocalyptic fears coupled with moments of epiphany (or ‘isolated cool moments’) the prevalence of McJobs in a world of default economic insecurity. 2 This phrase might be the most prophetic sentence in the novel. ‘I don’t know,’ reflects Dag, ‘whether I’m just upset that the world has gotten too big – way beyond our capacity to tell stories about it’. 1 Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture is, however, replete with the fear that the scale and speed of globalized reality exceeds the human gift for storytelling. Their modest hope is, as Claire reflects, that their lives might ‘become stories, or there’s just no way to get through them’. In a world after history (or at least after History) but before Toy Story, the War on Terror, PowerPoint and Keeping Up with the Kardashians, three twenty-something friends, Andy, Dag and Claire, abandon the pursuit of middle-class affluence and move to the edge of the Californian desert. ![]()
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